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  Today's Date: Wednesday July 23, 2008    Current MMQB Index: 3701.35 +64.90 (+1.78%) on a volume of 1,199,787 shares. Year to Date Change: -25.92%
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   Allsteel Inc.
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   HNI
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   Humanscale
   Kimball International, Inc.
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   Metro
   Steelcase Inc.
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   Teknion Inc.
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Aaron Rents Reports Revenues Up 15%
IN RENTAL  Wednesday Jul 23, 2008 
Same store revenues increased 4.1% during the second quarter of 2008 compared to the same quarter a year ago.

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Steelcase in Alliance with Lab Furniture Maker
IN MANUFACTURERS  Tuesday Jul 22, 2008 
Effective immediately, Steelcase and Lab Crafters will distribute a full range of products throughout North America, including Canada and Mexico.

Used: A market again
by ROB KIRKBRIDE  IN REFURB  Monday Jul 21, 2008 
Don't look now, but used furniture is beginning to hit the market again -- the first burst of activity since the end of the dot.com era.

Project Squeeze
by ROB KIRKBRIDE  IN DEALER  Monday Jul 21, 2008 
Dealers are echoing the facts laid out by the industry's top executives in recent financial reports and analyst and investor conference calls: Project business is retracting.

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Features
UPCOMING FOR MANUFACTURERS: A NEW SERIES - It's A Beautiful Thing!
A new column by Supply Chain Advisors' Rich Godinez and Craig Mayer.

Casual Dress
Anything that can be done to give office furniture a residential feel is going to help ease the teasing and give the industry more credibility.

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Briefing
Key Trends in Higher Education
LJ Duffy Opens new Haworth Dealership
Teknion Showroom in Ottawa Achieves LEED Silver
Odds & Ends Week of July 21, 2008
Wellborn Forest Products Selects 20-20 Technologies as its Strategic ERP Partner
Loth Opens New Showroom/Resource Center
Gunlocke Opens new Showroom in DC

UPCOMING FOR MANUFACTURERS: A NEW SERIES - It's A Beautiful Thing!
IN FEATURES  Monday Jul 21, 2008 
A new column by Supply Chain Advisors' Rich Godinez and Craig Mayer.

Casual Dress
by ROB KIRKBRIDE  IN FEATURES 
Anything that can be done to give office furniture a residential feel is going to help ease the teasing and give the industry more credibility.

Haworth's Brazo Lamp Wins IDEA Gold Award for 2008
IN MANUFACTURERS 
The IDEA competition is one of the world's most prestigious design competitions and a celebration of the most innovative and exciting product and product concept designs of the year.

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IN DEALER MULTIPLE POSITIONS  Jul 22, 2008 
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    Knoll, Leggett and HNI results boost shares / Project Squeeze / Office Furniture goes Casual / Used Furniture market returns
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    Industry Stocks:
    MMQB Index Stocks:
     Herman Miller
     25.76 +0.37
     HNI
     23.34 +0.26
     Inscape
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     Kimball International
     10.01 +0.02
     Knoll, Inc.
     15.60 +0.35
     Steelcase
     10.61 +0.41
    U.S. Markets:
     Dow Jones Industrial
     11603.47 +0.97
     Nasdaq Composite
     2312.92 +8.96
     S&P 500
     1280.23 +3.23
    Other Stocks:
     Interface, Inc.
     13.58 +0.32
    Intl Markets:
     Germany DAX
     6536.09 +93.30
     Japan Nikkei 225
     13312.93 +127.97
     United Kingdom FTSE 100
     5449.90 +85.80
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